Stone stele representing a Germanic divinity with bovine horns on his head, dating to the V century B.C., discovered near Holzgerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, and now in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany.
Several representations of Celtic and Germanic divinities show a human figure with the head surmounted by animal horns, which can be ramified deer antlers or domestic animal, particularly bovine, horns. Aside from the Celtic god with deer antlers, known as Cernunnos, other male divine figures are represented with a pair of bull horns. In archaeological remains have been found horned helmets, evidently regarded as the badge of chiefs or warriors, which suggest how the horns were believed to represent symbols of power and authority. Sometimes horned female divinities are found, particularly adorned with deer antlers, but also with cow or goat horns. It is presumable that these divine images should express the belief in an association between the female fecundity and the animal world, which is frequent in many civilizations of the Ancient World, and which is probably an heritage of the mother-goddesses, “ladies of the animals”, of the Neolithic age.

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